Another good review

Thanks for Phil May for this four-star review of “Moonlight, Murder & Machinery” up on his YA site. I am reprinting the first paragraph here:

In a little break from the norm, ReadItDaddy was fortunate enough to be sent a Young Adult fiction novel recently. I’m usually pretty polite about such things, making it clear that ReadItDaddy is predominantly a children’s picture book blog but the novel in question had the sort of premise that drew me straight in. So for today’s review, ReadItDaddy dips a toe into YA reviewing with John Paul Catton’s excellent novel “Moonlight, Murder and Machinery”.

It was the premise that had me hooked straight away. I’m extremely inspired by anything vaguely steampunky, mostly because of the works of Pat Mills and Bryan Talbot on the “Nemesis the Warlock” stories from 2000AD but since then, the genre has exploded and now Steampunk is more popular than ever.

But with “Moonlight, Murder and Machinery” we have “A gothic re-imagining of the Frankenstein story, set in a steampunk regency England where Steam has been outlawed” and it’s very easy to see why I had to take a look at this book, after a description like that …

You can read the full review here. 

One day a rain will come and wash these streets clean

Kind of old news now, but shoppers in busy, uptown Shibuya were shocked when dozens of V-mask-wearing Anonymous hackers swooped down on to the main plaza and ruthlessly ... picked up litter, swept the ground and generally tidied up the place a bit. And then vanished into the big city. Respect.  

Full details here.

Unprecedented News from Japan!

The largest protest rally in Japanese history took place on July 16th (a national holiday), with over 100,000 campaigning against nuclear power and the restart of the nation's reactors. The point that many speakers made was not that nuclear power was morally wrong as such, but the country's atomic energy program is in the hands of corrupt and incompetent bureaucrats. On the same day as the protest, an alarm system was triggered as the Oi reactor was restarted, and a new fault line was detected beneath the Shika reactor. ON THE SAME DAY.

Enough is enough. 

The Ebook

That link again. The ebook is available here, from Smashwords.

Author Interview

An interview with John Paul Catton revealing the inside story of "Moonlight, Murder & Machinery", and more, can be seen here.

The trailer is now on Youtube

The following link will take you to a newly created video. Before “Moonlight, Murder & Machinery” was a novel, it was a web-comic, scripted by John Paul Catton and drawn by Phill Evans. The following pages represent several early chapters from the book.

Another Good Review

"Moonlight, Murder & Machinery" has been reviewed at the Book Junkies website - you can read it here!

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